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Excerpt from Report: The Joint Committee Appointed Under the Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 30th of March, 1867, to Investigate the Purchases, Contracts, and Experiments of the Ordnance Department
Opinions differ quite as widely in regard to the preferable mode of developing ordnance power, whether it shall be by smooth or rifled bores, by loading at breech or muzzle, made from iron, cast or wrought, or from steel, solid or in connected parts. The relation of mass to velocity is also unsettled. In fact, the question involves the necessity of going back to fundamental principles, and starting thence by well-conducted experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
